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dive-bomb

[dahyv-bom]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to attack with or as if with a dive bomber.



dive-bomb

verb

  1. (tr) to bomb (a target) using or in the manner of a dive bomber

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dive-bomb1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

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A village primary school in east London has ordered pupils to stay inside due to a dive-bombing buzzard taking up residence in its playground.

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The "Great British Spraycation" street art included seagulls dive-bombing for chips, children playing with sand and in boats, as well as a rat leaning back in a deckchair while enjoying a cocktail.

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American photographer Kat Zhou won British Waters Wide-Angle, with an image of dive-bombing gannets in Shetland.

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The grackles became furious because traffic to and from the vehicles wasn’t moving right, and so they lined up to begin dive-bombing just about everybody.

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The zoo even enlisted a real-life bird of prey, a hawk, to fly around the zoo, Fawzy said — but the seagulls, unfazed, “gathered together in flocks of 20 or 30 and … dive-bombed the hawk.”

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